The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-02-16
WESTERN.

A dramatic and sensational episode
occurred at the Grand Opera House. San Fran
cisco, where Adelina Patti was giving her
farewell concert:
While the diva was singing, says a San Fran
cisco dispatch, a crank attempted TO throw
dynamite bomb on the stage. The matter ex-
ploded in his hands, injuring him severely.
panic. The police immediately rushed into the
gallery and arrested the dynamiter 1t is sup
posed he objected to PATHS high prices. The
diva Immediately afterward sang Home,
Sweet Home, apparently unaware that an
attempt had been made on her life. When
the bomb explo led panic was narrowly
averted People in the gallery were rushing
about seeking the quickest means OF exit, and
it was only by the self-possession of the news
paper men present in the box, coupled with
that OF the diva. that q stampede OF the entire
house for outdoors was prevented The bomb
thrower said he had stopped to pick up his hat
and cane and found n package under the seat,
which he picked up, and that as he raised it TO
see what IL was il exploded. Though he was
badly burned about the face and hands he re-
ceived no serious injuries. He gavo his name
as DIR. James Hodges, dyspepsia specialist.
His age is II.
The inhabitants of Baku, the center
of the great Russian petroleum fields, have
been much alarmed over subterranean ex-
plosion which shook houses and caused
considerable damage. At the same time vol
cano burst on Lokbatan, ten miles distant
from Baku For two nights the volcano threw
column of fire and mud $50 feet high,
Illuminating the country for miles around
The mud emitted during the eruption already
lies from seven to fourteen feet over a full
square mile of territory.
Five thousand Abyssinians were
killed in the battles in which the Italians
were defeated near Massowah.
A Des Moines Iowa special says:
"A farmer named Lucklum lived six miles
northwest of jefferson. With him lived his
wife and child and his aged father The
younger Lucklum started for jefferson with a
load of hay. In the afternoon neighbor saw
that the little dwelling Of the Lucklums was
on fire, and hurried thither, only to find the
doors fastened When other neighbors ar
rived the building was pile of ashes, in
which were the charred bodies of the elder
Lucklum, Mrs. Lucklum, and a child A re-
volver and gun were found beside the old
mans skeleton, and the accepted theory is
that he suddenly went insane, killed his
daughter-in-aw and grandchild. set fire to the
building. and killed himself
An ice-gorge at Lyons, Mich, re-
families were driven out, and the water in
vaded the second stories Of many manufac-
turing buildings An ice-gorge also formed
at Owosso, necessitating the closing of all the
factories The streets of Lansing were navi-
gated by boats, and all the mills along the
river shut down. The bridges mperiled were
secured by cables, and dynamite was used
successfully to scatter the ice.
Joseph Plew has been arrested for
the murder OF the Durham family near War
saw, Ind. Dunham's pocketbook and So il
money was found in Plews possession.
A swindler sailing under variety of
aliases has lately been operating in the West
Young lady stenographers seem to have been
singled out 10y him as his special victims He
appeared in Chicago few days ago, and began
operations in Gill's School of Eclectic Short
hand, promising the young lady stenograph-
ers lucrative positions in railroad offices in
Mexico provided they would hand him over
the money for Their fare. DIR. Gill, the prin-
cipal OF the school, who makes il point to
provide situations for all his scholars, and see
that they are not imposed upon by sharpers
got onto the swindler's little game, and he
There are seventy cases of measles in
Huntington County, Indiana
II. V. Bemis, of Chicago, sued the
st Paul Globe for So, 600 damages for libe,
and the jury awar lcd him one cent
The sangerfest of the Northwestern
Sangerbund will be held at Freeport, H.,
June 20, 80, and July next
During a fire in laundry on Post
street, San Francisco fireman and several
Cinnamon were killed by falling walls
The fire by which Jesse Arnot's liv-
cry stable in St Louis was destroyed also
caused the destruction of the hearse on which
the remains of President Lincoln were con-
veyed to the tomb -Four lives we're lost, and
200 vehicles and 100 horses consumed
At Hannibal, Mo-, Mrs. Thomas II.